This is a short-but-sweet recipe just meant to get the seasonal culinary juices flowing! I served this recently with a bacon and sweet potato galette on an evening when we desperately wanted it to be autumn, but were still a couple of days early. The combination gave us the satisfaction of seasonal flavors, but kept…
Galley Pirates Truth Bomb* : we do not make a completely new and different meal every day of our lives. When you are not looking, we — like other mere maritime mortals — repeat our favorites and go-to’s (go’s-to?) and standbys over and over again. We do endeavor not to tire you all with repetition,…
So by now you all know Pirate Caroline is spending the first two months of her 2018 lounging about a luxury yacht on the passage of a lifetime. I, on the other hand, have two months full of business travel (and alas, I am not a professional sailor). That said, some of my destinations have…
If you’re hiding skeletons in your wet locker tonight, watch out! You may hear your engine start, your dock lines hacked, and the heron calls turned to raven cries. It’s Halloween. So beware that the dead may come alive in your cockpit to take you out to sea.
July 3 – Severe thunderstorms in the Annapolis area. That changes our plans of making Margherita Bruschetta in Round Bay while we would typically be watching the Sherwood Forest fireworks on the hook with 40 or so other boats. It’s Annapolis’ pre-game to the 4th of July celebration. No problem, I’ll just wait for my…
(a Galley Pirates’ dinner in need of a more provocative name. Suggestions?) The spaghetti squash. Oval, smooth, plain, practically indestructible. You can keep it in a locker for weeks. Bang it around all you want. You can date it with a Sharpie, name it, float it as your crab trap buoy, whatever you want. Gourd…